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THE BOOK OF<br/>
<span class=large>NEHEMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 6
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Sanballat engages in intrigue against Nehemiah and the building of the wall—Jews finish construction of the wall.
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Now</span> it came to pass, when <sup>a</sup><a href="neh/6/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Neh. 2: 10 (10, 18-20).">Sanballat</a>, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and <i>that</i> there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
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That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in <i>some one of</i> the villages in the plain of Ono.  But they thought to do me <sup>a</sup><a href="neh/6/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 10: 23 (22-28).">mischief</a>.
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And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I <i>am</i> doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
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Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
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Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
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Wherein <i>was</i> written, It is reported among the heathen, and <sup>a</sup><a href="neh/6/6a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR Geshem.">Gashmu</a> saith <i>it, that</i> thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.
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And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, <i>There is</i> a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words.  Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
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Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou <sup>a</sup><a href="neh/6/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 55: 1.">feignest</a> them out of thine own heart.
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For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done.  Now therefore, <i>O God,</i> strengthen my hands.
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Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who <i>was</i> shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.
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And I said, Should such a man as I flee?  and who <i>is there,</i> that, <i>being </i>as I <i>am,</i> would go into the temple to save his life?  I will not go in.
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And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
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Therefore <i>was</i> he hired, that I should be <sup>a</sup><a href="neh/6/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 3: 7 (7-8).">afraid</a>, and do so, and sin, and <i>that</i> they might have <i>matter</i> for an <sup>b</sup><a href="neh/6/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Slander.">evil</a> report, that they might reproach me.
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My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
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&#182; So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth <i>day</i> of <i>the month</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="neh/6/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE the sixth Hebrew month, from the new moon of September to that of October.">Elul</a>, in fifty and two days.
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And it came to pass, that when all our <sup>a</sup><a href="neh/6/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Neh. 2: 10; Neh. 4: 7 (1, 7).">enemies</a> heard <i>thereof,</i> and all the heathen that <i>were</i> about us saw <i>these things,</i> they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
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&#182; Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and <i>the letters</i> of Tobiah came unto them.
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For <i>there were</i> many in Judah sworn unto him, because he <i>was</i> the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of <sup>a</sup><a href="neh/6/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezra 8: 16.">Meshullam</a> the son of Berechiah.
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Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him.  <i>And</i> Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
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